Regal (instrument)
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The musical instrument known as the regal or regalle is a small portable organ, furnished with beating reeds and having two bellows. The instrument enjoyed its greatest popularity during the Renaissan
Regal, c. 1600, from Frauenfeld Abbey, Switzerland
Regal made in 1988 after an instrument made c. 1600 in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Early Baroque Casket regal (Polish: pozytyw szkatulny), c. 1640, a specific type of regal from the territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Royal Castle in Warsaw
Renaissance music
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Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines. Rather than starting from
Regal (instrument)
…French régale) is a small portable organ, furnished with beating reeds and having two bellows. The instrument enjoyed its greatest popularity during the Renaissance. The name "regal" was also sometimes given to the reed stops of a pipe organ, and more especially to the vox humana stop. The sound of the regal is…
Gerard van Honthorst, The Concert (1623), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
San Marco in the evening. The spacious, resonant interior was one of the inspirations for the music of the Venetian School.
Selection of Renaissance instruments
Modern French hurdy-gurdy